Wheeler, Kevin G. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6553-6960
Jeuland, Marc https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-2622
Hall, Jim W. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2024-9191
Zagona, Edith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1333-0589
Whittington, Dale https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6075-8812
Article History
Received: 10 April 2020
Accepted: 16 September 2020
First Online: 16 October 2020
Competing interests
: K.G.W. has provided consulting services related to model development, Nile water management, and understanding the implications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam since 2012 for the Nile Basin Initiative, the World Bank, Stockholm International Water Institute and the Water Resources Research Institute, Egypt. Contributions to research include GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office. He has had ongoing academic collaborations with University of Khartoum, University of Addis Ababa, and Cairo University since 2012. M.J. currently provides consulting services (beginning in 2018) to the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) to assist with the development of a hydroeconomic model to analyze water infrastructure investments in the Nile Basin. During 2017 he also provided technical support on economic analysis through the NBI’s Economist Forum. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the Eastern Nile Scoping Study Team, whose work was commissioned by the Eastern Nile Council of Ministers and funded by the World Bank. D.W. served as Chair of the Board of the Environment for Development Initiative until 2019, which has a research center in Addis Ababa that works on water resource management issues in Ethiopia. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the Eastern Nile Scoping Study Team, whose work was commissioned by the Eastern Nile Council of Ministers and funded by the World Bank. In 2017–2018 he served as a member of an external technical advisory committee for Deltares on a project—financed by the Nile Water Sector, Government of Egypt—to study the effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile system. E.Z. provided consulting services to the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) from 2007 to 2012, providing technical expertise to the development of the Nile Basin Decision Support System, and also in 2015–2017, providing assistance to NBI’s Strategic Water Resources analysis, a collaborative work with stakeholders from the Nile Basin countries. J.W.H. has no competing interests to declare.